Mary Eugenia Wharton

…Dr. Mary E. Wharton at Floracliff. Image courtesy of Floracliff Nature Preserve. From 1958 to 1989, Mary Wharton purchased a series of parcels along the Kentucky River with the intention…

Albert Commons

…is likely additional specimens will be found. NCU’s vascular plants can be searched at www.sernecportal.org NCU curates only about 40 fungal specimens collected by Commons, and most of these were…

Budd Elmon Smith

(9 February 1910 – 5 August 1976) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 850 vascular plant specimens, 10 fungal specimens, and 1 lichen specimen…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…on the White House roof to protect the president.””   SOURCE: Sullivan, Patricia. 2006. Obituary: Frederick Meyer, 88. The Washington Post. November 14, 2006. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/11/14/frederick-meyer-88/5079af3c-74b9-43c8-a02f-e352f18513e1/ accessed on 13 December 2022….

Clifford R. Parks

…USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/606154048/?article=41c34f0d-53e9-433a-a53c-2eceda363e25/4f61241f-d62c-43a5-b1ea-3e18d24fd8a3&focus=0.27969596,0.84042877,0.5112509,0.96954286&xid=3398. Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2020. 9. Obituary of Kai Mei Parks, 2015. https://walkersfuneralservice.com/tribute/details/1039/Kai-Parks/obituary.html accessed 18 January 2021….

Michel Georges Desire Lelong

…1966 Lelong was among 35 “New Fulltime Faculty Members” of the University of South Alabama. His salary as an Assistant Professor of Biology was $7,000-$7,500, with a note that beginning…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…purpose of collecting alpine plant specimens. 10 It is interesting that Edward S. Morse, curator of PSNH ca. 1866, went on to become the director of the Peabody Museum at…

Charles Henry Hitchcock

…##### SOURCES: “About the Hitchcock Atlas: Who was Charles Hitchcock?” Text by Thelma Thompson, Government Documents Librarian, University of New Hampshire Library, August 20, 2002, revised January 16, 2008. https://www.library.unh.edu/find/digital/maps-atlases/about-hitchcock-atlas…

Helen Shedd Sherwin

…and Leafspot on Soybeans in Maryland. Phytopathology 42(6): 342. SOURCES: 1. “Helen S. Yu, Garden Club President” Obituary, The Washington Post, 24 November 1990. Accessed on 23 June 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1990/11/24/author-roald-dahl-dies/0a2b6f8b-c4f0-4b42-8fd1-8493bcbd94f1/…